‘er I am JR...
The Ghost in the machine”
So many memorable lines in that film.
Definitely disturbing.
It went from this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnx95KyQEAA
and the beautiful dream sequences, slowly, almost imperceptably into total, oppressive control, a terrifying edifice controlled by banal little men.
It’s hard to pinpoint just where the movie went from a sort of hilarious sendup of bureaucracy straight into hell, but it does and it’s startling to have been lulled along, much like like the rise of totalitarian states in reality, no doubt.
Those dream sequences owe a great deal to the aforementioned Barbarella, by the way, I’d forgotten how much they resemble, one sixties psychedelic camp, one eighties Blade-Runnerish dark dystopia.